We use both Octave and Scilab at JNU. Octave is more robust but has a command-line interface and a sharper learning curve. It interfaces with gnuplot to produce graphics - itself not easy to use beyond simple ine graphs...:)
Scilab is faster to learn, easier to use, has a GUI interface, very neat demo programs, and can scale across compute-nodes using PVM. Both programs use numerical processing algorithms, though some engineers I know, feel that Scilab sometimes give inconsistent results. We use Scilab for interactive stuff, and Octave for batch-processing, or as embeded within our protocols. (Actually - we use Perl wrappers for both R and Octave when we have to automate processing protocols for large data sets.) Andrew. -----Original Message----- From: Kenneth Gonsalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: The Linux-Delhi mailing list <[email protected]> Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 19:18:13 +0530 Subject: Re: [ilugd] OSS alternative to SPSS On 19-Sep-06, at 7:07 PM, Nishant Sharma wrote: > Octave is equivalent to matlab how does octave compare with scilab? -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ http://freedel.in - September 16-17, 2006 ============================================== This Mail was Scanned for Virus and found Virus free ============================================== Andrew Lynn Ph.D Bioinformatics Center, School of Information Technology Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi 110067 _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ http://freedel.in - September 16-17, 2006
